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Sabrina Eaton

Sabrina Eaton

Reporter, Plain Dealer Washington bureau

Sabrina Eaton has been a Washington correspondent for The Plain Dealer since 1994. She previously worked for a Washington, D.C. wire service and newspapers in New York and New Jersey. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from University of Pennsylvania.

seaton@plaind.com

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Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on August 8, 2013 in a news release:
Says Obama "exempted Congress and their staff from the full effect of the (health care) law."
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • September 5, 2013
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on June 11, 2013 in a House of Representatives floor speech:
"If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens’ ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves into the middle class."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • June 26, 2013
Bob Gibbs
Bob Gibbs
stated on May 17, 2013 in a tweet:
"If Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million people will still be without health insurance."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • June 10, 2013
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on April 11, 2013 in House of Representatives floor speech :
"The Social Security trust fund is sound. Without anything being done, it would function well into 2038; and even after that time with no changes, we could pay 80 percent of the benefits that people have earned."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • May 15, 2013
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on April 9, 2013 in a Facebook posting:
"Women in Ohio earn on average 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • April 24, 2013
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on March 19, 2013 in a congressional hearing:
The national debt is "larger than our entire annual economy."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead, Sabrina Eaton, W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2013
Steve LaTourette
Steve LaTourette
stated on March 17, 2013 in an interview on “Fox News Sunday”:
"Quite frankly, it was during the Bush years of spending, multiplied now by the Obama years that we have this mess."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • March 26, 2013
Dave Joyce
Dave Joyce
stated on February 13, 2013 in a radio interview:
"There are 3 million jobs that go vacant each month in this country."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 19, 2013
Joyce Beatty
Joyce Beatty
stated on January 14, 2013 in a floor speech in the House of Representatives:
Says each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded.  
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 8, 2013
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on December 19, 2012 in a floor speech in the House of Representatives:
"States have cumulatively cut over $1.8 billion from their mental health services between 2009 and 2011. This is the largest reduction in state mental health services in half a century."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 1, 2013
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